A lost bitcoin wallet passcode helped uncover a major security flaw - (If you created a Bitcoin wallet before 2016, your money may be at risk)

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A lost bitcoin wallet passcode helped uncover a major security flaw - (If you created a Bitcoin wallet before 2016, your money may be at risk) (www.washingtonpost.com)

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From the post: "SAN FRANCISCO — After a tech entrepreneur and investor lost his password for retrieving more than $600,000 in bitcoin and hired experts to break open the wallet where he kept it, they failed to help him. But in the process, they discovered a way to crack enough other software wallets to steal $1 billion or more."

Archive: https://archive.today/WMAm6 From the post: "SAN FRANCISCO — After a tech entrepreneur and investor lost his password for retrieving more than $600,000 in bitcoin and hired experts to break open the wallet where he kept it, they failed to help him. But in the process, they discovered a way to crack enough other software wallets to steal $1 billion or more."

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